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NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is the leading grassroots pro-choice advocacy organization in Washington state, and we believe that every woman should be able to make personal decisions about the full range of reproductive health options. NARAL Pro-Choice Washington works to protect every woman’s right to access the full range of reproductive health options, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is the state affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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Five more days until election day and over here at NARAL the coffee is flowing and the phone lines are all busy. Because we are crazy activist types, when we take a break from election work, we read articles about reproductive rights and elections. Here’s what we’ve been reading:

Check this out! The Modern War on Women, complete with graphics, statistics, and ways to take action.

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement has been popping up on a lot of reproductive rights blogs. I recommend checking out the original article yourself. It was written by a former student president of Student’s for Life and how she realized that the “Pro-Life” movement has a lot more to do with controlling women’s bodies than saving babies. Libby Anne, the author, actually reminds me of a fair amount of people I have met (including NARAL members) who are personally anti-abortion but would never want to restrict abortion access.

Over in Texas, the state-funded Texas Women’s Health Program (WHP) is being launched without abortion “affiliate” Planned Parenthood. Oh wait! No, it’s not. Texas Will Continue to Fund Planned Parenthood, For Now which sounds ominous. Governor Rick Perry wants to run the WHP without having to give funds to Planned Parenthood, and will SHUT DOWN the WHP if courts force the state to include funding to Planned Parenthood. Also, check out how cutting Planned Parenthood’s funding will affect Medicaid patients.

Washington, Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota all have same-sex marriage on the ballot. This could be a year for huge victories in marriage equality! Personally I think the fact that we have to vote on the right to marriage is rather crazy. However, it was exciting to color in the little “Approve” oval for Referendum 74 on the ballot.